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The New Beginning - Sectoral Innovations for Proactive, Progressive and Influential Human Rights Civil Society project aims to establish sustainable and innovative models for effective protection and promotion of human rights through: institutional and legal advocacy, support for victims of human rights violations, public communication and mobilization of citizens. It aims to increase the social and political influence of human rights organizations in response to declining human rights standards in Croatia, deteriorating socio-economic situation and the institutional inertia in finding rights-based solutions to today''s complex political and socio-economic challenges. The project responds to the most significant structural challenges human rights organizations face. Those challenges affect the entire civil sector and negatively affect the capacity for institutional and legal advocacy, legal aid, public communication and mobilization of citizens for human rights issues. Project’s sectoral innovation is based on partnership, participation and lessons learned, as well as on an objective view of the sectoral challenges and problems followed by a joint strategy definition and formulation of concrete steps to overcome them. The innovation aims to establish a long-term structural CSOs cooperation to strengthen their sustainability and influence, encourage synergies and interconnections of advocacy and direct work with vulnerable groups and communities. This project will build the capacity of human rights organizations and find innovative solutions to strengthen their advocacy and legal support for victims, to support their work with citizens and local communities thus creating the necessary preconditions for changing the paradigm from reactive to proactive - from defense of human rights to active advocacy for their expansion and promotion.